cpt1973, according to Sony, that PCV-RX401 came with a 2 GHz Intel Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. If you have not added any memory, then that's the step to take to improve speed. A 1 GB stick of that PC2100 DDR SDRAM is very cheap today.

cpt1973, according to Sony, that PCV-RX401 came with a 2 GHz Intel Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. If you have not added any memory, then that's the step to take to improve speed. A 1 GB stick of that PC2100 DDR SDRAM is very cheap today.

Agree with above poster...I would not sink much money into this sytem...it's older, IDE hard drive, PC133 RAM.

Unless you can find a CPU for pocket change, and find compatible RAM for cheap..next step would be to get the fastest IDE hard drive at 7,200rpm with the most cache. By the time you've spent the money to upgrade all of those components, you could have purchased a much newer computer on a much more modern (and substantially faster) motherboard 'n bus speeds.

You may need to consider ventilization b4 buying a P4. Your processor is generally not the bottleneck, as mentioned by other posters, unless you are calculating pi or something to that effect. And of course, make sure that your PSU can handle the power demands of a P4. P4's use more power than Celerons; that's a given.